It took some of the Silver Knights almost 10 minutes to rise from the turf after being dealt their second stunning overtime loss to the Baltimore Blast, 10-8, on Friday.

It is their third consecutive loss to the Blast after being blown out Jan. 20 and falling in eerily similar fashion on Jan. 18 when Baltimore put in a direct kick goal 1 minute and 28 seconds into extra time.

The Silver Knights (6-14) had their chances in extra time Friday, seeing shot after shot narrowly miss. However, it was Baltimore star Aduato Neto who spun around, shook his defender and put in the back-breaker, just beyond the outstretched arm of goalkeeper Bryan O’Quinn 6:38 into overtime.

An ending that could only be described as “brutal.”

“This one is a bit brutal to handle, obviously,” O’Quinn said. “We wanted to be able to take this one.”

The Silver Knights have now lost four games in overtime this season, as well as two in the final minutes. With six games remaining and the playoffs falling out of reach, Syracuse head coach Tommy Tanner can’t help but want some of those close games back.

“We win half of (those games) and we’re in the playoffs right now,” he said. “You just have to find ways to not make mistakes and when you have the opportunity, put it on target and finish it.”

Syracuse did not lack opportunities as it put a total of 53 shots off the ground, all the while mounting a furious second-half comeback in which O’Quinn pitched a shutout.

They just couldn’t knock in the one that mattered most.

At the onset, the Silver Knights looked outmatched and unlucky, falling behind 8-2 in the first half. It was a rough 30 minutes, which saw a direct kick goal go in untouched as well as an own goal off a contested shot by O’Quinn.

The team’s lone score came when Andriy Budnyy rocketed a pass in front of the net and off the foot of a waiting Nate Bourdeau. It was one of only a few pretty plays in a half where the team couldn’t catch a break.

However, the second half started off with tone-setting defensive play by Ryan Hall in which he slid in front of a Baltimore shot that had just eked past O’Quinn. From that moment on, O’Quinn and the Silver Knights put on a show, recording three unanswered goals while shutting out the once formidable Baltimore attack.

Speedy 18-year-old and St. Vincent-St. Mary product — the former home of NBA star LeBron James — Antonio Manfut recorded his first goal of the season to put the Knights within striking distance while Kenardo Forbes capped off the comeback, stealing the ball, juking away from his lone defender and then burying the shot into the upper right corner.

“To shut a team out for the whole half is not the easiest thing in the world but we have to find ways to win those games,” Tanner said. “We have six games left so were probably going to have to win six or at least five of them.”